Your Windows PC Had a 19 Year Old Bug on It. Today, Microsoft Fixed It

Use a Windows PC? There has been a vulnerability on Windows dating back to the Windows 95 days.

You can thank IBM researchers for spotting the vulnerability. The discovery happened back in May, but IBM worked with Microsoft to fix the problem before going public. According to the researchers, the critical bug has been in every version of Windows since 95. Ugh, now I feel old.

What could the vulnerability do to your computer? Any would be attackers could exploit it to remotely control your PC. Microsoft is urging users to download the update. Yeah, I think I’m going to get on that today.